THE BOX

As a brit, I am proud of the education system here in Britland... but not so proud of the food. I enjoy hotpot, sunday roast, fish and chips etc but they're not my favourite meals.

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Originally Posted by eugmac

chinese food, indian food, european food (taking an average... french and italian good, german and english not so much) >>>>> american food

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Pretty much this except I'd swap Indian and Chinese. Nothing beats a ruby. Except maybe lasagne.

I still wouldn't press the button as I'd never know if I'd killed someone who really didn't deserve it. Strangely though I could personally perform the execution if I knew 100% the world would be better off without the victim (rapist, murderer, whatever)

I was under the impression that UK has a pretty horrible split in quality between comprehensive ("public" in North American verbiage) and public (actually private, retardedly) schools.

Similar to how there's two tiers of healthcare - NHS, and express private service for those who can afford it.

It's a postcode lottery with schools. There's some great comprehensives but you need to live in the right catchment area. Similar houses a few streets apart can vary considerably in value down to the school you'd qualify for.

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Originally Posted by eugmac

boost. u just asssociated Spain with cuisine invalidating your post. I've been there. fucking shithole.

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elBulli is in Spain. But you are clearly missing my point. The best cooks and best cuisine do not often share the same geographical location.

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Originally Posted by boost

elBulli is in Spain. But you are clearly missing my point. The best cooks and best cuisine do not often share the same geographical location.

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Is the implication here that Spain's cuisine is sub-par? This is not at all my understanding, though I'm extremely biased espanaphile.

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Originally Posted by boost

elBulli was in Spain. But you are clearly missing my point.

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tftfy

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Originally Posted by surviva316

Is the implication here that Spain's cuisine is sub-par? This is not at all my understanding, though I'm extremely biased espanaphile.

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No, my point is... actually I'm not even sure what my point was, as now that I reflect on the premise which I was responding to, I realize that it doesn't even make sense in the first place.

ya, the premise was facetious. i dunno what y'all are getting your knickers in a twist for. fwiw my impression of spanish food was that everything was just fried in olive oil. everything.

eugmac are you still in berlin?

hey m2m, yes in berlin.

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Originally Posted by eugmac

ya, the premise was facetious. i dunno what y'all are getting your knickers in a twist for. fwiw my impression of spanish food was that everything was just fried in olive oil. everything.

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Yes, it's gonna take a little bit of creativity to throw together a multiple-course Spanish meal if you're out of olive oil and garlic. But obviously the same exact thing could be said about Italian cuisine, which made your list of two exceptional European cuisines.

Among other things, Spain also has really good charcuterie-type things, especially their blue cheeses. I say "charcuterie-type things" because I'm including things like sardines, which is obviously not a cured meat or a cheese, but it's the same type of thing where you can eat it cold on a piece of crostini with nothing else and it's delicious.

Spain is also a really under-appreciated wine producer. They probably deserve to be third-rate to Italy and France (I only say probably because I don't know much about authentic Italian wines), but Rioja produces a lot of very good wines, and Sherry is the best god-damned alcoholic drink in the world outside of scotch (now I'm obviously speaking out of my ass, but I love(d) sherry). I can't speak to Cava vs other sparkling wines because I was never very into sparkling wines.

Anyway, is this thread permanently derailed? Did I ruin it by using some Wikipedia buzz words on ethics?

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Originally Posted by Lucothefish

As a brit, I am proud of the education system here in Britland... but not so proud of the food. I enjoy hotpot, sunday roast, fish and chips etc but they're not my favourite meals.



Pretty much this except I'd swap Indian and Chinese. Nothing beats a ruby. Except maybe lasagne.

I still wouldn't press the button as I'd never know if I'd killed someone who really didn't deserve it. Strangely though I could personally perform the execution if I knew 100% the world would be better off without the victim (rapist, murderer, whatever)

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FWIW when I say "British food" I'd include all the dishes common in the UK which you wouldn't really find anywhere else, which includes a lot of dishes which didn't culturally start as British dishes (lots of curries, Chinese dishes, Italian dishes, etc) but have now become British-ized over decades.